Edexcel S3 2022 June — Question 3

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS3 (Statistics 3)
Year2022
SessionJune
TopicHypothesis test of a normal distribution

  1. The random variable \(X\) is normally distributed with unknown mean \(\mu\) and known variance \(\sigma ^ { 2 }\)
A random sample of 25 observations of \(X\) produced a \(95 \%\) confidence interval for \(\mu\) of (26.624, 28.976)
  1. Find the mean of the sample.
  2. Show that the standard deviation is 3 The \(a\) \% confidence interval using the 25 observations has a width of 2.1
  3. Calculate the value of \(a\)
  4. Find the smallest sample size, of observations from \(X\), that would be required to obtain a 95\% confidence interval of width at most 1.5